HI matic, an urban eco-lodging facility

Located in the Rue Charonne, a stone’s throw away from Bastille. Welcome
to South Bastille where restaurants, organic shops, store concepts,
specialized book stores are blooming. Young designers meet here, young
chefs open their restaurants, you can cruise around and meet your
friends. The area is as popular as it is trendy, a condensed version of
Paris in Rue de Charonne. This is where HI matic has been established, a
new urban eco-logding concept.

Matali Crasset has collaborated once again with Patrick Elouarghi et
Philippe Chatelet to inject a new vibe in the Paris lodging. With 42
cabin rooms, HI matic combines the codes of an urban hotel with that of a
country lodging. Economical, ecological and automatic, this warm cocoon
in the heart of the city revives the best Japanese Riokan, the youth
hostel or the rest house. An ecological accommodation with a precise
choice of materials (wood, rubber, natural paintings) that entice areas
of conviviality and sharing.

Contemporary in its layout, warm in its the choice of living areas,
affodable in terms of price and sincere with regards to environment
awareness, Himatic is what was missing in quality city accommodation. It
is adapted to current needs, ideal for green attitude addicts or more
casual ecologically concerned individuals.

HI matic is a small hotel perfect for a city like Paris. It answers the
need of the characteristics of urban tourism, for short and longer
stays, a pied à terre for those who come regularly to the Capital for
business or leisure trips. For a day or a year, you will want to come
back to HI matic to enjoy a good night’s sleep! Because everything here
is simple, informal and friendly.

HI matic is 100 % internet the web site created by the hotel without any
intermediary, dealing directly and simply with the hotel. You are
welcomed and guided in the same simple way. You live the experience in
full autonomy as comfortable at the HI matic as you are with social
networks.

Hi matic has to be experienced as a direct link to the city. You can
live your stay in a simple and casual way, free to move in an
explanatory environment. Turned towards the exterior because of the
lobby that is open to the street with large windows but also a
protective cocoon in the interior. It allows you to rest in comfort and
to regenerate while getting acquainted with Parisian life style. An
hotel to rest, and catch your breath before plunging back into the urban
rhythm. Staying at HI matic is enjoying the pied à terre experience in
Paris. You move in with all the autonomy and freedom, you are never
alone, for you are sure to meet friends in a new community with whom you
can share each other’s experiences and tips about the city.

The first impression when you discover the rooms is an appropriation of
space. The 42 rooms occupy 5 floors and are conceived on a model of a
cabin. Space is available and flexible. All is done to allow you to
spend time. Each cabin offers all the services of a comfortable room.
Flexible in its play with spaces and elements, the experience of living
closer to the ground is what gives you that impression of freedom.
Nothing is hung on the walls, the cabin is its own structure that leads
to all services.

The cabin has an extension that is a small desk. The
bed is on a platform with its memory shape mattress that was
custom-made. It is in the centre of the cabin. At night it becomes a
large and comfortable bed for a good night’s sleep. During the day it’s a
sofa for lounging, dining, working … A real freedom of action that
entices you to possess the room as if it were a cabin made for children.
Fluency, autonomy, simplicity: the client is in a universe without
formalities while very structured.

The lobby as well as the restaurant is conceived to favor encounters,
meetings allowing for tips to be exchanged before going off to discover
the city. You can meet people, you can leave messages, addresses. The
ipad is at your disposal to discover music selections and to see various
practical informations, it is a communal tool. HI matic is networking
within the city. A giant map of Paris is present in the meeting point.
ParHI Link is fed by important people chosen by their expertise in
music, art and cooking…. they will share their experience of the city.
it might become Paris’ best city guide.

The HI matic shop is conceived like a gift package available 24/24. This
playful boutique proposes a selection of useful, pleasurable and
practical objects ready to use. Guides, books, cd’s, toothbrushes and
other necessities are available in an original dispenser. A real organic
breakfast is available in the restaurant from automatic dispensers. You
are free to take whatever you please and place it on your tray and then
seat around the large communal table.

HI matic is the new project of the HI life group. As usual, Matali
Crasset, Patrick Elouarghi and Philippe Chapelet want to offer an
accomodation concept shakes up conventional hotel business codes. They
came up with new ways to welcome you and to allow you to live together
in a hotel. They have managed to create very diverse entities from urban
city hotel to the eco-retreat in the desert. HI matic adopts Matali’s
beliefs about hospitality which were her main concerns when she first
began -ie hospitality column.

HI matic respects the same logic as the Hi hotel in Nice in its
contemporary, dynamic yet friendly dimension. A living experience that
will be renewed at your next HI Life destination.